Product Description

One of the most important aspects in creating the best coffee is ensuring your grinds are as fresh as possible. Running this Urnex Grindz Cleaner through your Burr Grinder every few weeks will work wonders and give you only the freshest tasting coffee or espresso. All-natural, gluten free and completely food safe.

Please Note: Grindz cannot be used in superautomatic espresso machines. Doing so may cause damage to your machine's grinder or brew group and is strongly discouraged.

Recommended by Gail and this does a great job of cleaning out the machine from the extra oil of the beans. I recommend buying some "cheap" beans to use AFTER you run Grindz through to clear the path of the extra chalk.

Does anyone know what this stuff is made out of? It says food safe and natural but a lot of manufacturers of products say that these days. Just wondering because after all you do probably end up drinking some it.

Best Answer:Brent, I quote from the container: "Every ingredient is edible and either used to bake bread, prepare your favorite breakfast, or in the case of the food-safe binder a key ingredient in toothpaste." From the EU disclosure document, ingredients are listed as: "Proprietary mixture of cereals and grains with food grade binders."

Judging from inexpert physical inspection, the product looks like organic material with something to bind the ingredients together.

You are right, though, that, after cleaning,a couple of tiny white specks continue to show up for one or two grinds no matter the thoroughness of getting the cleaner out of the grinder. They don't alter the taste and, so far, they don't seem to have affected me.

And if that doesn't show up in this reply, go to www mahlkoenig com and navigate to products>GRINDZ

I've been using it for a number of years and have been very satisfied with its results. In addition to following the instructions on the container, I use the vacuum on the grinder after using GRINDZ and then run a few grams of beans through the grinder to "flush" out the remaining GRINDZ material.

According to this website, Sweet Maria's (cannot paste URL here), "The product is a proprietary formula of grains, cereals, and pharmaceutical grade binders in a coffee bean shaped tablet." It doesn't have any particular odor or feel to it. Yes, they seem hesitant to list ingredients, which scares some people off. If you are concerned though, wiping down the hopper with a damp paper towel would remove most residue.

Best Answer:Yes, this is a better solution than rice. Some rice can be too hard and can actually cause damage if ground through a grinder. This is intended to break apart, and because it can become a powdery consistency, will absorb some of those oils a bit faster as it passes through your grinder. Just keep in mind that there's still a more intensive cleaning that you'll still need to do with your grinder by taking apart the burrs, and while it's less frequent than using Grindz, you'll never be able to completely avoid that heavy duty cleaning! :-)

Can I use this with the built-in grinder on the Breville Barista Express BES870XL? I also have a Breville Smart Grinder and I know I can use it on that at a course grind, but the Barista Express only does fine grind.

Best Answer:It is perfectly safe to use Grindz on the Breville Barista Express because remove and discard the Grindz product after it has ground through the unit. However, you wouldn't want to use it in a superautomatic machine where water would come into contact with the Grindz after it has been ground. You can use the Grindz on either a course or a fine grind setting.

Reviews

It's fine for a stand-alone burr grinder but it will permanently damage a superautomatic. (Posted on 12/5/2014)

Works great. I'm ordering more.Review by jolietjim

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I have a 20 year old Rancilio Rocky grinder that's never been cleaned, and the dial that lets you adjust the grind setting has been immobile for years. I got some Grindz, recommended by sales guy Matt, and it freed up the adjustment dial so I could get the coffee beans ground to a finer setting for the new espresso machine I just got.

Now, I am going to take the Rocky apart and see if I can clean out all the junk that's been accumulating in there since the last century. (Posted on 9/10/2014)

Celiac sufferers and gluten intolerant bewareReview by CC

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Great product! Unless you have celiac as it does contain wheat. I unintentionally made a customer of mine very ill as she has severe Celiac's disease. I felt terrible. I do not recommend this in a cafe setting for this reason. (Posted on 2/13/2014)

Does the jobReview by Lisianski

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Grindz seems to have been around as long as I've been grinding my own coffee, a good many years now. It seems to do what it is supposed to do, just fine. To be sure I don't know of any competing products, though they may well exist. I will continue to use it. (Posted on 5/1/2013)

Seems to work, hard to get out againReview by Laura

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I have a newish grinder so I honestly couldn't tell you if this stuff works to seriously clean an old grinder, removes oils, etc. I did have trouble getting it back out of the machine -- there were light-colored grinds still coming out of the spout even after I ground some sacrificial beans, and even three or four espresso shots later. Fortunately it is edible, and I haven't noticed an off taste. (Posted on 3/24/2013)

Very Good Product.Review by Mardelra

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Works Great. (Posted on 2/25/2013)

So far so goodReview by Jimmie

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Have only used it 3 times and it seems to be doing a good job. Haven't really had it long enough to know so will re-visit in a few months. (Posted on 2/21/2013)

Easy to use and. Does the jobReview by Alan

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Following the directions, my grinder is clean after use of one application. (Posted on 7/30/2012)

Dont use riceReview by sleepy

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I tried rice in one of my grinders for cleaning and it was too tough, it got caught in the gear and bent the plastic ring holding the burr in place. The Grindz cleaner flows through better and has a degreaser ingredient for the old oils. Now I will never treat my grinder to anything less.

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great stuffReview by jay

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very easy to use, though i wish the box would have had instructions for weather to have the grinder set to coarse or fine while using the grindz.
(maybe it was on there and i just missed it)

will definitely be using this again, I'm no stranger to the "urnex" brand great manufacturer

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Easy To Use, Not to messy

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A bit dusty (Posted on 3/20/2011)

CleanReview by IncHulk

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Clean

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Easy To Use

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None (Posted on 3/10/2011)

Worked greatReview by sleepy

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Worked great

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I WOULD BUY THIS AGAINReview by annie

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it works wonderfully........but would like it even better if it were somewhat cheaper

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Easy To Use

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good productReview by ken

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grindz- works good and is easy to use, i note a
big improvement of the grinder operation.
also coffee tastes much better